2.1Senator
Dabirian received unanimous consent to have VP Hagan report on preliminary budget
reductions for 2008-09. VP Hagan provided the following overview:

oA reduction was not made to the 2007-08 budget; the Governor
had designated a $213.6 million increase to the CSU to address enrollment
growth, academic infrastructure, and general operations costs.

oThe Governor then recommended a $312 million undesignated
reduction to the 2008-09 CSU budget, leaving a -$99.3 million net.

oWith $114.5 million in unfunded mandates and the -$99.3
million net, the CSU will face a $213.8 million cut.

oThe Governor’s budget assumes revenue for the CSU system
related to a 10% fee increase, but does not include a buy-out as requested by
the BOT. The BOT have not taken action on a fee increase.

oIf fee increase is implemented, approximately $73.2
million in revenue would result, making the CSU shortfall $140.6 million. CSUF’s
share is estimated at 7% of CSU numbers, which would translate to approximately
$9.8 million in shortfall for CSUF.

oIf fee increase is not
implemented, CSU shortfall would remain at $213.8 million. CSUF’s share is
estimated at 7%, which would translate to approximately $15.0 million in
shortfall for CSUF.

oIf there is no fee buy out, it is estimated that when
campus baseline of 2007-08 for unfunded health and compensation, structural
deficit payments, and All-University reductions are taken into consideration, CSUF
would face an $18.3 million reduction.

oIf a fee buy-out does take place, it is estimated that
when campus baseline of 2007-08 for unfunded health and compensation,
structural deficit payments, and All-University reductions are taken into
consideration, CSUF would face a $13.3 million reduction.

oWe still owe $2.3 million the baseline cut for the 2006-07
structural deficit cut.

oBased on discussions with the PRBC, VP Hagan recommends
that we plan for the buy-out to take place; the General Assembly has a history
of doing so. However, the legislature has not yet acted on this, and the PRBC
has not made recommendations to the President regarding it.

oWe will get new fee revenue from student fees, but if
enrollment decreases, we will lose fee revenue.

oVP Hagan stressed that the numbers he reported are
estimates and could change. He presented figures based on the information we
currently have. We await the Governor’s May Budget Projection Revise.

Questions from the
floor:

Senator Bruschke: How
much are we spending on the CMS project?

Senator Dabirian: Roughly
$7-10 million

Senator
Bruschke: Heard it is possible that we could face a situation where faculty
will not receive release time, or classes could be reduced. How much can we
actually do to prevent things like this from happening?

VP Hagan:
In frequent conversation, CITO Dabirian is asked to continue looking for ways
to cut back on spending (for example, not putting forth some of the CMS
modules). Some of our costs relate to loan payback for this project. We are
looking into refinancing those loans.

Senator
Dabirian: At this point, we cannot stop the project. We received a $20 million
loan, we pay $3.6 million per year on that loan. We have to finish projects and
pay consultants.

VP
Hagan: If anything can be reduced or delayed it will be. The next round of
discussions will be regarding prioritizing. We will keep everyone informed as
information becomes available.

2.2 M/S/P
[Bedell/Burgtorf] to approve ASD 08-17 Resolution to reaffirm its support of
President Gordon’s initiative to conduct five years of faculty hiring with 100
searches each academic year resulting in a net gain of approximately 80 new
hires annually. (Approved with 2 abstentions.)

III.ANNOUNCEMENTS

Senator Hickok
distributed flyers about the 3rd Annual Pollak Library Prize for
Undergraduate Research Papers and Projects to each Senator and asked that they
take them to their respective departments for publicizing. There is a total of $1,800
in cash awards available for undergraduate students who completed or will complete
research papers or projects for class credit during summer 2007, fall 2007, or
spring 2008. For application guidelines and other information, visit http://library.fullerton.edu/libraryprize
or send inquiries to wbreibach@fullerton.edu.

Chair Guerin welcomed
ASI Representative Paul Rumberger back to the Academic Senate. He will assume
the position for Brian Richter, who recently resigned from ASI.

Chair Guerin reminded the body that
nominations for the Carol Barnes Excellence in Teaching Award are due by 5 p.m.
on February 11th. Files for the Outstanding Professor Award are due at
5 p.m. on March 3rd. Please submit these items to Marilyn Miller in
the Academic Senate office.

Chair Guerin added that
our institutional proposal for WASC reaccreditation was accepted in December by
WASC.

Chair Guerin shared the
sad news of the recent passing of Dr. Masami Ehara Kuni, Professor of
Theater and Dance Emeritus, Dr. Edsel F. Stiel, Professor ofMathematics Emeritus,and Dr. Mary
Crouch, Professor of English and Comparative Literature. The body observed a
moment of reflection in memory of these colleagues.

VP Smith provided an update on enrollment closures. He
reported the following:

oThe Chancellor announced that first-time freshmen
applications (system-wide) would be closed on February 1st. This
date was moved to March 1st on some campuses.

oThere are 4 impacted campuses in the CSU system; CSUF is
one of them.

oWith the exception of applications to ECS, CSUF closed first-time
freshmen applications for fall 2008 on December 1st.The deadline for first-time freshmen
applications to ECS will be February 1st.

oIt was decided by the President that all “out of the
area” freshmen applications with an eligibility index below 3200 will be
immediately rejected. Letters to those applicants are being sent now.
Applicants with indexes between 3200-3300 are being held as we wait for further
details of the budget. Applicants with indexes above 3300 have been accepted.
This should recruit a freshman class approximately the size of this year’s
freshman class.

oWe will not allow FTF who receive a grade of D or F in a
required course to use the summer to make it up. This will impact approximately
126 admits.

oWe will close the upper division transfer application
window for fall 2008 on February 13th. (Exceptions: Upper division
transfers to Nursing and possibly Engineering)

oWe will not allow any transfers to utilize the summer terms
to complete the required 60 transferable units or any of the basic subjects
(English composition, oral communication, critical thinking, and mathematics).
This will impact about 200 transfer applicants over the summer.

oThese strategies should yield a 10% decrease (approximately)
in new students. If we admit approximately 10,000 new students for fall, these
controls should lower the number to 9,000.

oWe received approximately 55,000 applications for fall,
10% more than last year.

Dr. Abrego was congratulated on being selected to receive the
Alfredo G. de los Santos, Jr. Distinguished
Leadership in Higher Education Award at the AAHHE Conference on March 8, 2008
in Miami. He
commented that he is truly honored to have been selected to receive the award,
especially since it is named after Alfredo G. de los Santos, a longtime Latino leader in higher
education. His body of work consists mainly of working with educational equity
issues, insuring that students have access and opportunities to pursue their
educational goals. He thanked President Gordon, the faculty and staff for their
hard work and VP Palmer for nominating him for this award.He also congratulated Dr. Patricia A. Perez
(unable to attend Senate meeting due to time conflict) on her receipt of the
award.

Time Certain

12:05 p.m.

Report
on PRBC Recommendations

Bob
Koch, Chair, PRBC

Dr. Koch
reported to the Academic Senate as per BL 98-2. His report included discussion
of the following:

oThe charge: Engage in ongoing discussion of planning and review
of recommendations for all budget considerations with specific emphasis on
annual budget considerations.

oTo do so, we need to understand the current budget
environment. The PRBC looks at the projected budget environment. From
presentations and evaluations, the PRBC makes recommendations on campus
priorities, and plays a role in short-term, and long-term planning.

oLast year, a Blackboard community site was created last
year for the PRBC and anyone who is interested in having access to PRBC agenda
items, minutes, items/products the committee produces. Send Bob Koch a request
to be added.

oThe year starts off with the President giving PRBC a charge
and history of the PRBC. This year we had an additional discussion on the role
of the PRBC in strategic planning.

oThis year, VP Hagan gave a “Budget 101” discussion to
explain various budget jargon and terms and provided a budget report, similar
to one he gave to Academic Senate.

oPRBC looked at a variety of different issues that dealt
with emergency reserve fund, general fund budget, carry forward monies, and the
lottery fund. Made revenue projections for this year, and dealt with the
structural deficit.

oPresentations by the Division and Program Heads take
place, as well as special presentations by individuals such as the Vice
Chancellor for Budget, Dolores Vura and Kim Apel.

oAt the end of the fiscal year, we begin looking at the
projected budget for the following year, the state of the budget, changes,
modifications, and then make recommendations.

oPRBC recognized that the process by which the budget was
made had never been defined, so a subcommittee began working with people in the
Finance division to look at the planning cycle and responsibilities.

oSome members attended conferences on strategic planning. Earlier
in the semester, we had a mock strategic planning event and came up with
processes for PRBC.

oA subcommittee produced a detailed diagram that
illustrates the strategic planning process.

oThe carry forward monies taken from departments 2004-05
and 2005-06 to establish the emergency reserve were amongst items that the PRBC
members felt should be dealt with. PRBC created a plan for those funds to be
recovered by the academic entities from whom some of that had been taken. And
recommended that the carry forward that had taken place in 2006-07 and 2007-08
be allowed to be completely restored. Another recommendation was that
obligations that are left over from one fiscal year should be the first
obligations that are refilled by any new monies that become available in
subsequent years.

oIn the process of evaluating and recommending, the PRBC
reviewed three requests for new programs, a new minor, a new emphasis, and
concentrations.

oTo streamline the review of missions and goals
initiatives, the application process was automated, archiving of the
information on a web site, and creation of a committee to do the ranking of the
missions and goals initiatives. The subcommittee, chaired by Mikyong Kim-Goh,
consisted of two faculty members, two administrations, one staff member, and
one student. It read 127 proposals, requesting $3.047 million in funding with
only $600,000 available.

oPRBC made submitted budget recommendations to the
President.

oPRBC meeting tomorrow will focus on budget reduction
issues, look at what is critical, our obligations, and debts.

oDr. Koch urged the body to feel free to ask questions and
attend meetings as guests.